bawdry

bawdry (countable and uncountable, plural bawdries)

1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
2. Illicit intercourse; fornication.
3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book VII:

     […] for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting adventures, b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.

• bawdry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.